Corinne Geering, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
Thursday 15.09.2022
13:00 – Transfer to the Mining and Technology Park in Leipzig Neuseenland
14:00-14:30 – Opening address
Gerald Riedel and Martin Baumert, Mining and Technology Park in Leipzig Neuseenland
Achim Saupe, Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”
Corinne Geering, Research Lab “Valorisation and Commodification”
14:30-15:30 – Panel I: Creating Landscapes I
Chair: Achim Saupe (Potsdam)
Sarem Sunderland (Zurich): The Imagination of a Reservoir: Social-Economic Constructions of Lake Sihl (1897–1937)
Andrew Demshuk (Washington, DC): Undermining Heimat in Leipzig’s Coalfields: Pollution, Prophecy, Demolition, and Memory before and after 1989
15:30-15:40 – Short break
15:40-16:40 – Panel II: Creating Landscapes II
Chair: Martin Baumert (Bochum)
Isabell Schmock-Wieczorek and Vincent Haburaj (Dresden): How Objects Define Places and Histories: Methodological Approaches for Object-Based Research in the Industrial Landscape of Kulkwitz, Saxony (Germany)
Lea Brönner, Markus Otto and Heidi Pinkepank (Cottbus-Senftenberg): Identity, Power of Disposal and Heritagisation in the Lusatian Post-Open Cast Mining Landscape
16:40-17:00 – Coffee break
17:00-19:00 – Guided Walk in the Mining and Technology Park in Leipzig Neuseenland
19:15 – Transfer to Leipzig
Friday 16.09.2022
8:45 – Transfer to the Mining and Technology Park in Leipzig Neuseenland
9:30-11:00 – Panel III: Representing the Past
Chair: Kaja Schelker (Leipzig)
Leyla Sayfutdinova (St Andrews): Fire in the Land of Oil: Symbolism of Fire, Oil, and Nation in Baku Urbanscape
Merve Neziroğlu (Leipzig): 50 Years of Hydropower: A Field Trip to the Iron Gates in Romania
Jenny Hagemann, Fabian Jacobs and Lutz Laschewski (Bautzen/Cottbus): Contested Regional Identities: Including Minority Rights in the Creation and Historisation of Post-Mining Landscapes
11:00-11:15 – Coffee break
11:15-12:45 – Panel IV: Living with the Landscape
Chair: Sabine Stach (Leipzig)
Rune Frandsen (Zurich): Secondary Infrastructure Exposed: The Temporary Settlements of La Grande Dixence (1950-1962)
Agnes Tatzber (Vienna): Post Petrol Present: The Emergence and Decline of the Petroculture-Dependent Spaces in Neusiedl an der Zaya
Saara Mildeberg (Tallinn): Cultural Tourism in a Post-Industrial Adventure Land
13:00-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Panel V: Energy Leftovers
Chair: Corinne Geering (Leipzig)
Carolin Maertens (Munich): Living in Cultural Landscapes of Contamination. Persistent Toxicity and Reconciliation in East Germany
Hubert Tubacki, Aleksandra Lis, Kosma Lechowicz, Łukasz Afeltowicz, Jacek Gądecki and Joanna Suchomska (Poznań/Uppsala/Kraków/Toruń): Just Transition at the Margins of a Carbonscape: The Case of a non-Silesian Mining Town Brzeszcze
Gertjan Plets and Pim Huijnen (Utrecht): The Contested Hydrocarbon Landscapes of the Netherlands: Challenges and Opportunities for Remembering the Anthropocene
16:00-16:45 – Commentary and Concluding Discussion
Chair: Torsten Meyer (Bochum)
Commentary: Juliane Tomann (Regensburg)
17:00 – Transfer to Leipzig main station